sustance

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Old French

Noun

sustance oblique singularf (oblique plural sustances, nominative singular sustance, nominative plural sustances)

  1. Alternative form of substance
    • Rutebeuf, C'est li diz des regles, 13th Century:
      D'autrui chateil, d'autrui sustances
    • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 187 of this essay:
      le sperme du mezeau soit corrumpu en sustance
      the semen of a leper is corrupt in substance